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Soil Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
- The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the…
- Those poor farmers who came up, that day, to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest of instincts. Theydid not know it was a…
- But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore…
More Soil Quotes
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a… — Henry Ward Beecher
- The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to… — Pope Benedict XVI
- There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in… — Ezra Taft Benson
- You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and… — Jacob Bronowski
- Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by… — Charlotte Bronte
- A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls… — Pam Brown
- But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened… — King Albert II
- Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. — Sitting Bull
- Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. — Edmund Burke
- My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. — Ray Charles